Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.

My mother was a barmaid and I was raised in a trailer park. I'm used to that language. I put it on the screen so that people could interpret it as they wish.

I like to think about society as being a flock of birds: There seems to be a common consciousness in different time periods, and the new common consciousness reacts to the old standards.

I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.

If I could make a decent living doing documentaries, I would. I don't really care about [the other] stuff so much. But you can't make a living doing documentaries. Although it has affected my work, at least in that I think I make fairly realistic-looking pictures.

I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.

I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.